Claude Baker

Divertissement may be described as a jocoserious, quasi-palindromic collage. With strands from Mozart, Liszt, Claude Gervaise and George Rochberg, it has been characterized as a frolicsome romp throug...

The term canzona refers to a genre of Italian insturmental music first made popular in the sixteenth century where the composers either merely arranged or completely transformed French chansons, a for...

Written for Alarm Will Sound, Carmen infernarum machinarum fugax (The Fleeting Song of the Infernal Machines) is written for a sixteen-piece chamber ensemble. The title of the composition is a riff on...

The term canzona refers to a genre of Italian insturmental music first made popular in the sixteenth century where the composers either merely arranged or completely transformed French chansons, a for...

Annees de pelerinage: Italie (Years of Pilgrimage: Italy) derives its title from the set of three suites for piano by Franz Liszt in which he musically portrays the strongest sensations and most livel...

A VOICE PASSES provides musical commentary on three haiku by the 19th-century poet Masaoka Shiki and one by the legendary master he most admired, Yosa Buson. Stricken with tuberculosis and addicted to...

A VOICE PASSES provides musical commentary on three haiku by the 19th-century poet Masaoka Shiki and one by the legendary master he most admired, Yosa Buson. Stricken with tuberculosis and addicted to...

From the larger collaborative work Yet Another Set of Variations (on a Theme of Paganini) written by a number of composers to celebrate Leonard Slatkin's 75th birthday, this string orchestra work was...